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Show Prominent Early Cedar City Resident Succumbs at LA Home Funeral services for Nathan T. Porter, 88, well known to many people in Cedar City and southern south-ern Utah, were held in the Vermont Ver-mont Ward chapel in Inglewood, Calif, on Oct. 24. Mr. Porter, who had become a well known educational, edu-cational, religious and political leader in California, was a former for-mer president of the old Branch Normal School in Cedar City, and was one of the organizers of the Bank of Southern Utah. A report of his death, taken from the "California Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain News," was forwarded to the Iron County Record by Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Foster, former Cedar City residents who now make their home in Inglewood, and who were present at ihe funeral services for Mr. Porter. The report re-port is as follows: Mr. Porter died Oct, 22 at his home in Los Angeles following a short illness. An active member of the church he served as a missionary in Great Britain and later became president of the Davis Stake Sunday Schools. For many years he was a member of the general board of the Des-eret Des-eret Sunday School Union. Before his recent illness he taught the Gospel Doctrine class in the Vermont Ver-mont Ward Sunday School. A prominent banker, he was appointed by former Gov. Simon Bamberger to serve on Utah State Banking Commission and as chairman of the Utah Stete Securities Se-curities Commission from 1916-20. He had helped organize banks in Davis County and in Southern Utah. He came to California in 1921 and founded the National Thrift Corp. of America, serving as its president for 10 years. Mr. Porter began his career as an educator and teacher in Davis County. He was later appointed superintendent of the public schools for that district for that district and from 1901-02 he was president of the Branch Agricultural Agricul-tural College (College of Southern South-ern Utah) at Cedar City. He was a professor of finance and business at the University of Utah and also taught some of the first courses in law at the Utah school. He engaged in a private law practice in Salt Lake City, being associated with the law firm of Stephen L. Richards, Justice W. Moffat and Herbert Van Dam, Jr. A resident of Los Angeles for the past 31 years, he continued to be active in politics. He was candidate for governor of California Califor-nia on the Townsend Oy Age Pension ticket in 1943. He was appointed to the old age pension committee in 1944 by former Gov. Earl Warren. A native of Centerville, he was born Oct. 2, 18G5, a son of Nathan Na-than T. and Eliza Ford Porter, early Utah pioneers. He attended attend-ed the University of Utah and obtained his B A degree from that school. He later received a law degree from the the University Univer-sity of Chicago. On Jan. 25, 1888 he married Anna Adams in the Logan Temple. Tem-ple. She was not well enough to attend the funerals services which were held on her 87th birthday. Also surviving arc two sons and a daughter, Leland (Leo) T. and LeGrand Porter and Mrs. Anna P. Ricks, all of Los Angeles; Ange-les; live grandchildren; the following fol-lowing brothers and sisters: Jess J. Tortei and Mrs. David F. (Ef-fie (Ef-fie P.) Smith, Salt Lake City; 'Mrs. H. B. (Emily P) Parrish, Mrs. F. W. (Emma P.) Walton, M;s. C. H. (Linda P.) Smith and Mrs. F. E. (Millie P.) Walton, Centerville. |
